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November
2009
Where is a Third World War most likely to be sparked? For at least a decade before World War One began, those most concerned knew that the ongoing arms race was leading to disaster, as did those who sat on the sidelines and watched Germany and Japan build up to World War Two. World policy wonks have taken a long sigh of relief after the Cold War ended some twenty years ago yesterday, but in so doing have been all too lax at identifying– and diffusing– actual “hotspots” that are likely to trigger a global conflict on the scale of the World Wars, or bigger if you consider the nuclear capabilities of the countries involved. Here are three possibilities…
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October
2009
Asian states have united to officially oppose the Euro-American formula for global dominance emphasizing “peace and security” with one based on “peace and prosperity” instead, and which has a much better track record historically. The two focal points of their meeting in Hua Hin, Thailand, was on reducing China-India tensions over a dispute about commercial projects in Kashmir and capitalizing on Asia’s relative and growing economic strength worldwide compared to others, like the U.S. and U.K., who continue to struggle with the financial crisis and downturn. This meeting marks a watershed moment in world power politics and world history that should not be underestimated…
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20
October
2009
The “comprehensive strategy to confront the serious and urgent situation in Sudan” President Obama outlined yesterday was far from anything new in American diplomatic affairs, which is not to say ineffective. Actually, the shift in policy marks a sharp return to diplomatic tactics the U.S. perfected during its expansionist phase in the 19th and early 20th centuries: ‘big stick’ and ‘dollar’ diplomacy. Here is how the two policies worked then and are intended to now…
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15
October
2009
Tensions between the two most populous countries totaling about one third of world inhabitants were ratcheted up a notch this week, with no resolution in sight. Indian Prime Minister Singh strongly objected to China’s new and ongoing commercial projects in Pakistan and the disputed territories it controls in Kashmir. Within a wider context from China’s point of view, this is only one more step towards total domination of Central Asian natural resources and industry, highlighted by China’s monopolies on most such resources in Afghanistan, to NATO’s and the U.S.’s great dismay…
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October
2009
Bringing together scholars, activists, educators and leaders of many top local, national and international organizations, the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) conference starts today at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October 8-10, 2009). This year’s topic is “Exploring the Power of Nonviolence,” honoring Gandhi’s 140th anniversary. For live coverage follow @AntonyAdolf on Twitter…
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29
September
2009
Warning: the following is not for the weak at heart or those easily excitable by all things military. Chinese annual military expenditures have increased 230% since 1998 (guess how this compares to the U.S.), among other freaky facts about national military expenditures around the world…
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6
August
2009
An email from Democratic National Committee Executive Director Jen O’Malley Dillon makes clear the imminent danger mobocracy in America presents to the burgeoning experiments in participatory democracy. The “five facts about the anti-reform mobs” she presents are shocking…
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July
2009
The first official, direct dialogue between China and Taiwan took place yesterday in the shadows of the US-China summit, which perhaps purposefully drew much more media attention. Sixty years after civil war between the nationalists who escaped to the island and the communists who took over the mainland, their leaders urged lasting peace in a stunningly strategic diplomatic maneuver…
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July
2009
The precarious peace between Sudan’s government-controlled north backed by Arab tribes and the semi-autonomous south controlled by rebel Black tribes overcame a major challenge yesterday when oil-rich lands between them were divided equitably according to each…
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July
2009
The Non-Aligned Movement of over 115 nations was once a historically unique and periodically powerful vehicle in which the weakest and poorest could stand up to the superpowers, then the US and USSR, and their ideological clubs. Their two-day summit in Egypt wrapping up makes clear not only that the non-aligned need to realign themselves vis-à-vis each other and the post-Cold War world. Above all, the summit’s important if limited outcomes showed why they should and how the world would benefit…
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